In this video, a TI engineer at electronica 2022 explains the various sensors that are deployed in a vehicle in order for it to be able to drive itself.
ADAS technology has to address critical, time-sensitive applications like emergency braking, front-collision warning and avoidance, and blind-spot detection. This requires the combining of data from multiple sensors to enable reliable, real-time decisions for safer autonomous driving.
To properly support ADAS functionality, you need to integrate data from cameras, radar, and other sensors like ultrasound to give the vehicle an accurate sense of what’s going on around it. Moderately accurate enough on their own, the sensors combined gives the car a much more accurate picture of the space around it. A Texas Instruments engineer walks us though a modern sensor suite at their electronica 2022 exhibit.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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